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Long TSA wait times + helping unpaid TSA workers

03/19/26

Higher passenger numbers at many airports due to spring break travel and the continuation of the partial government shutdown that requires TSA workers to work without paychecks is taking a toll on the travel experience at many airports. The security checkpoint lines continue to move smoothly at some airports. But staffing shortages mean that at […]

Unclaimed Money at Airports. Who Gets It?

04/16/23

This week (August 16 – 23) is National Coin Week. And it is a good time to remind travelers to keep track of all their loose change at the airport security checkpoints. Passengers going through airport checkpoints are told to put all their carry-on items on the belt going through the x-ray machine and to […]

Nominations for TSA’s Top Ten Catches of 2023

01/09/23

It’s been just a few weeks since the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) released its Top Ten Finds of 2022. And we already have news of some items found at airport checkpoints that might appear in the 2023 reel. Snakes on a Plane. Almost This didn’t show up in TSA’s Top Ten Catches of 2022. But […]

TSA’s explosive detection dogs in a calendar

11/29/22

Need a gift for the dog lover on your list? The Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) annual calendar might fit the bill. The 2023 calendar honors the agency’s more than 1,000 explosives detection canines working in the United States. Ebbers, the TSA’s 2022 Cutest Canine contest winner, and a (now retired) explosives detection canine at Minneapolis-St. Paul […]

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TSA finds a gun hidden in a chicken at a Florida Airport

11/08/22

Let’s give credit to the TSA officers at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) who cracked the case of the passenger whose carry-on luggage contained a raw chicken with a gun hidden inside. TSA takes offenses like this seriously. But the agency isn’t above cackling and crowing about finds like this on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. […]

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Travel Tidbits From An Airport Near You

11/02/22

TSA May Still Make You Wear A Mask The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a ruling that allows the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to require mask-wearing on planes, trains, and other forms of transport. The TSA stopped enforcing a mask mandate in April of this year after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s […]

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Tips for traveling with gifts

12/19/21

Getting your gifts through airport security Flying this week? Stay safe, stay sane, and pay attention to the gifts you put in your carry-on bags. TSA officers may ask you to unwrap a package if they need to get a look at what’s inside. That can be slow you down, of course, but it could […]

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TSA’s Far Out Social Media Accounts

12/09/21

Once again, it looks like someone is having a little too much fun with the Transportation Security Administration’s social media accounts. The TSA has a handy “What Can I Bring?” tool that is part of the agency’s standing offer to help travelers figure out what they may and may not put in their carry-on bags […]

How many firearms did TSA find at airport checkpoints in 2019?

01/15/20

It’s a number we anxiously wait for each year. And it’s a number that sadly keeps going up. In its annual Year in Review, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today shared the tally of the number of firearms its officers found at airport checkpoints around the country all last year. The total: an alarming and […]

Don’t take your gun to the airport

12/06/19

It’s been a while since we took a look at the count of guns and other dangerous items travelers try to take through airport security checkpoints. For the record, firearms, grenades and a long list of other dangerous – or dangerous-looking items – aren’t permitted airside in airports. Yet each week passengers do show up […]

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